Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...downtown Kabul last week, a unit of Soviet and Afghan troops paraded through the streets towing a fresh supply of SS-1 Scud missiles. Elsewhere in Afghanistan the Soviets also deployed 30 MiG-27 attack aircraft and began striking at mujahedin fighters with Backfire bombers. Why the sudden buildup? In Moscow First Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh announced that the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan "is being suspended" because of new attacks by mujahedin rebels. Blaming the U.S. and Pakistan for continuing to give arms to the guerrillas, he hinted that the original pullout deadline...
...State Department charged that the buildup called into question Moscow's commitment to a "genuine political settlement." The fact is, neither superpower has halted military aid to its ally in the Afghan conflict. Now the Soviets want to buy time for President Najibullah's government, which seems to be losing the war. The Soviet pullout will likely resume, but if Soviet combat aircraft remain in the skies, the mujahedin will have to postpone victory celebrations...
Bush commercials show Dukakis riding around in a tank to prove he's soft on defense. The reality is that America under President Reagan has had the largest peacetime military buildup in history; we are stuck with stockpiles of excess, overpriced weapons systems and a Department of Defense bloated with consultants and conflict-of-interest connections with industry...
...despite the buildup, with armored personnel carriers patrolling trouble stops, bands of Palestinians roamed the streets of towns and cities in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip, pelting cars with rocks and erecting roadblocks of burning debris...
...looking through different lenses, both seem to view federal education spending as a frilly, bloated social program rather than as a vital national-security program at least equal in priority to maintaining strong armed forces. During the Reagan years, despite growing concern about huge deficits, the largest peacetime military buildup in the nation's history boosted spending for defense 37% in inflation-adjusted dollars to annual levels of nearly $300 billion. Federal outlays for elementary and secondary education were reduced nearly 20% during the same period. Given that history, perhaps the next President ought to consider assigning the task...